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The lleppm-r Gazrtte-TImM, Ileppner, Oregon, Thursday, November H, 1982-TIIREK Around About! liy Justine Wealherford So another election hat come and gone, and life must continue even for those whose favorite candidates didn't win and whose favorite measures went down to defeat. A really good trend may have begunthe voters' response to this off-year, non-presidential election was better In most localities than it has been. Because I have not tried to ascertain the number of registered voters In Morrow County, I cannot state what percent voted. I Just happen to have the results of the November 2 voting and of the May 18 voting in that primary election before me. Last May the most votes were cast for the Morrow County tax base measure, a total of 1827. Last week the most votea, 2547, appear to have been cast on Ballot Measure 6, which proposed to end the state's land use planning powers but to retain local planning. From the published totals of votes cast, It appears that 718 more citizens in this county market ballots last week U on marked them in May. Very good! Aj I further atudy the May and November voting, I note that 738 Republican votes were cast for the two persons running for the commissioner position in May while 745 were cast for the single Democratic candidate who then won last week In a close contest by 1277 votes to 1265 for his opponent. The only totals published on state ballot measures were for Measure 3, the one limiting real property tax to one and one-half percent of 1979 true cash value, which went down locally by 1708 to 861 votes, and Measure 6 voting which was much closer with 1385 favoring it and 1162 opposed. The Sunday "Oregonian" and KATU, Channel 2, really put forth great tributes to former governor Tom McCall on Sunday, Nov. 7. It is rather unusual to see a living public figure so" lauded and so completely eulogized. It is a pretty sure thing that McCall is succumbing to cancer; he positively states "I can't be with you much longer." His career and life before and after his public service has been most interesting ! found that I have most often been in agreement with his viewpoints. When his final moment ends I am wondering what more the media will find to say about him after last Sunday's massive tributes. It was good to note that the Morrow County Grain Growers had a good year last year. This is satisfying to the members of the co-op and to all of us in this county. We are waiting to ae how the year shaped-up for the Columbia Basin Electric Co-op. What happens there more directly affects each of our households. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth when the increased electric bills arrived this month. Somehow many of us find it hard to widen tand why our sincere efforts to conserve ganoline and electric power just have seemed to result in causing us to pay more for the gasoline and electric power we need to use. It sort of looks like, in those cases, that conservation just doesn't pay for most individuals. From politics to weather. When I watch the TV weather news from Portland, I keep feeling thankful that this part of the state hat more sunshine and less rain and fog. One usually feels more uke bounding out of the covers in the morning when there is brightness outside the window than when the night teems to cling in the sky and a rather gloomy-type day portends. Last Monday morning, the first snowflakea of the season, that I have noted, gan falling Inside Heppner't city limits. November's big dayt are today, whicn many oi HI still call Armistic Day but which may be more accurately labeled Armed Forces Day, and then two weeks from now when the annual, historic, harvest festival of Thanksgiving arrives. Little children undoubtedly feel that the time between1 Haboween and Christmas it mighty long. H'wever, this grandmother feels like each year that time lapse rushes by imore swiftly and has surely somehow been shortened. Another big day this month, it isnt much fun to mention, it November 15, that necessary tax-payment date. It tort of Slowi one's beginning plans for Christmas giving. Perhaps la the election excitement you did not note three firsts taking place in the U.S.A. last week. The day after the election the stock market set a new high, then the national trade deficit and national umemployment also reached new higha. It is interesting to read and hear experts disagreeing about our economic future aying the depression is over and everything is improving, or tying that the worst may still be ahead of us. Preparations for winter, which officially arrives on December 21, should be well along by now. When I was thinking about stuffing rags around my water meter, I had a chance to chat', briefly with Cornett Green nbout my plan, and Cornett said "Use wadded up newspaper. It is the best insulator. I always use newspaper." So now I have found another use for old newspapers and I hope mine and other paper-protected meters will stay unfrozen. As we look about on the cooler days this fall it seems that smoke is billowing-up from wood fires in most homes. The wood stove business has really boomed with the upsurge in heating oil, gas and electricity prices. I have been a bit envious of my friends who have hauled firewood to their homes by the truckloads and who keep it burning pretty constantly in their fuel -efficient stoves and fireplaces. Because my fireplace is not at all efficient and I have no wood stove and am not fixed for hauling wood, I have not burned much of my small accumulation of wood very regularly, Last Sunday morning, just before my departure for church time, some dear friends surprised me with a most exciting pre-Christmas gift. They brought a pickup load of great fireplace-sized wood and stacked it on my back porch. So that afternoon and evening I had a crackling fireplace fire and enjoyed it rather selfishly all by myself as I lazily watched some Sunday TV. Like most folks who live alone, I often find Sunday evenings a little more lonesome than other evenings. Having a bright, warming fire, especially on e contributed by generous, thoughtful friends, really took away most of that lonesome feeling. I hope others are agreeing that some open-channel TV is very good this year. I suppose we all have favorite stations. I have two favorites which I watch most frequently, with rare exceptions. I am rather addicted to the Public Broadcasting Service and to ABC's KATU. However, along with other friends and family members, I feel compelled to view CBS a little while for "Sunday Morning" and insist on watching "60 Minutes" on Sunday evenings. If snowflakes continue to fall, more of us will find TV viewing is becoming a bigger part of our lives than we ever expected it to become. As winter closes in it is good to visualize countless families being warmed by wood and enjoying many evenings of good TV together. HTITITlTITlTlTITrfiTiyiTITITrfrriTniX Happy Birthday Greg Sweek! '"(Are "you really that old?) Free energy audits offered When winter's chill hits your pocketbook, it's time to wcatherize: Free home en ergy audits and financial in centives are available to all Oregon households, regard less of how the home is heated, according to the Oregon De partment of Energy (O.D.O.E) "The 1982-83 heating season is here and the cost of all types of home heating fuel electri city, natural gas, fuel oil and wood is likely to increase," said Deanna Mueller-Crispin, manager of O.D.O.E.'s Oil Heat Wcatherization Pro gram. "The best way to re duce fuel bills is to make sure your home uses energy effi ciently, and that means insu lation, storm windows, caulk ing and weatherstripping and heating system efficiency," Mueller -Crispin said. Oregon's newest wcather ization incentive program of fers free home energy audits to all homeowners who heat with oil or propane, Those homeowners are eligible for a stale-sponsored 6.5 percent wcatherization loan for mea sures recommended in the audit. The loan can cover the cost of a new. high-efficiency oil burner, the Oregon De partment of Energy said. The oil heat program, ap proved by the 1981 Legisla ture, has completed more than 4.800 home energy audits since early this year. More than 500 households have used the state low-interest financing for wcatherization measuresthe department reported. Similar audits and incen tives are available to custo mers of Oegon natural gas and electric utility companies, including Peoples Utility Dis tricts (PUDs). Customers should contact their space heating utility for more infor mation. Households that heat with wood can request a free home energy audit from the electric utility, the depart ment said. Those wood-heated households then are eliegible for the state-sponsored 6.5 percent weatherization loan. Households that heat with fuel oil or propane should contact their dealer or call f toll free) 1-800-452-8660 for more information. 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